Madrid

I had a day out in Madrid...the museums are off limits with the camera, but I did spend a couple of hours in the gardens near El Prado, the Parque del Retiro ... that is made up of a variety of sections. It is just huge. It turned out to be a beautiful but brisk day!

Its all about the colors in this picture of a fountain near one of the entrances to the gardens, the tree and the water provided a nice balance to the growing trees and blue sky...

I spent quite a bit of time working with the rainbow, this turned out to be the most interesting as it reaches towards the Crystal Palace. I'm sure they knew what they were doing when they set this up and how the early morning sun would play this way.

Another view of my obsession with the rainbow created by the fountain, the Crystal Palace and the morning sunlight.

A beautiful art display from Josiah McElheny inside of the Crystal Palace ... perfectly suited. I spent a lot of time playing with various apertures, this turned out to be the most interesting ... it felt very fractal to me as I stood inside the crystal palace looking at the reflections.

Full-on view of the Crystal Palace.

This is just one of the little water fixtures in the park, a stream that runs down by the Fu'tbol fields :-) Still, I enjoyed taking pictures as the wind would mess with the shrubbery ... basically two planes of time passing by in this picture, the waterfall and the shrubs all moving at their own pace.

And another picture with the trees in the foreground still but if you look above the waterfall the wind is on the move, just further away.